With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

Lincoln believed in the American people.